Monthly Archives: January 2023

✔ Custom color scheme:
▫ You can create your own color scheme
▫ Define the color for each degree or note. The color of the text can also be adjusted
▫ Whether the color is bound to the degree or the note is determined by the general appearance setting ‘Color scheme binding’
▫ The color scheme is used in:
◾ Chord diagrams
◾ Circle of fifths
◾ Fretboard representations
◾ Piano
◾ Scale-circle

✔ Predefined color schemes:
▫ 10 new color schemes
▫ Some text colors have been changed for more contrast

✔ Scale-circle: Option to limit the scales to the church modes

? Problems in lookup audio files on Android 13

? Support for MIDI devices that do not meet the specification

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Guy Togbenou, Jesper Clausen, Konstantin Paus, Lari Natri, Mat Botica, Mike Marshall and Roy Young, Sergio Tamburini for their contribution to this version

✔ Android 13 compatibility

✔ Set-List-Link: Permission for ‘Location’ was needed for WifiDirect, but isn’t needed in Android 13 anymore

✔ Lyrics pad: Ability to search for ‘Meaning like’

▶ Our video shows the use of the Lyrics pad: https://youtu.be/IwCTPSkHzqc

? Lyrics pad: Correct handling of spaces in the Word-finder

? Tips: Checkbox to deactivate tips wasn’t visible anymore

? Circle of fifth: Wrong text color if setting ‘Color scheme binding’ was active

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Bill Liddell, Carsten Bruns, Fred Worm, Lothar Email and Piet Thecrank for their contribution to this version

s.mart Lyrics Pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists, and songwriters. It allows you to keep track of your ideas and provides a Word-Finder to help you find the right words. Whether you’re looking for a rhyme, synonym, antonym, or a word with a specific meaning, beginning, or end, the Word Finder has you covered. It supports English and Spanish and has databases with millions of words for these languages. You can also use keywords to organize your text.

• For your effective work the search results are sorted by their rating and the number of syllables sorted.
• Unfortunately, the Word Finder supports only English and Spanish. However, word databases with several million words are available for these languages.
• You can use keywords to better structure the text.
• Adjectives
• Antonyms
• Consonant match
• Homophones
• Kind of
• Part of
• Meanings
• Near rhymes
• Nons
• Synonyms
• Similar sounds
• Words by pattern
• Rhymes

BTW – The Word-Finder is also available in the Songbook and Notepad of smartChord: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.smartchord.droid

✔ Fretboard trainer: New option with which you have to specify chords for any fingering

✔ Tables of contents: New option to sort the items by the part of the name after the ‘-‘. This can be useful if you build your items e. g. according to the scheme ‘title – artist’ and want to sort by artist

✔ Songbook YouTube player: Changing the playback speed also affects the scrolling speed

? Lyrics pad: Word-finding result was sometimes not visible

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to David Sansó, Jens Martin, Manfredo Leitner, Philip A Edyvean, Richard Riley and Roland Schippmann for their contribution to this version

✔ Songbook:
▫ Possibility to import songs from an arbitrary folder on Android 11 and newer
▫ IP address for online tools is also visible when using large system fonts
▫ IP address also listed in the help

? Songbook editor: monospaced font

❀ Special thanks to Henk Oostrom, Max Welte and Tomasz Cichawa for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ Lyrics pad ⭐⭐⭐
▫ The new Lyrics pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists and songwriters. With it you’ll easily keep all your ideas and the Word-Finder will help you with the right words. No matter if you are looking for a rhyme, a synonym, an antonym or even a word with a certain meaning or beginning or end.
▫ Unfortunately, the Word Finder supports only English and Spanish. However, word databases with several million words are available for these languages.
▫ In a pre-release version for subscribers and UNLIMITED users
▫ For your effective work the search results are sorted by their rating and the number of syllables sorted
▫ You can use keywords to better structure the text
▫ You can easily print or share your lyrics
▫ The Word-Finder allows to search for:
◾ Adjectives
◾ Antonyms
◾ Consonant match
◾ Homophones
◾ Kind of
◾ Near rhymes
◾ Nons
◾ Part of
◾ Rhymes
◾ Similar sounds
◾ Synonyms
◾ Words by pattern

✔ Songbook: The Word-Finder can be used in the song edit screen too

✔ Notepad: The Word-Finder can also be used in the notepad edit screen

✔ Translations for all languages

? Songbook: transposition of slash chords

? Improved media search with just one character

? Problems to share files via GoogleDrive when changing the folder

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrea Bazzani, Michael Taube, Rudy Gamberini and Werner Albert-Schneider for their contribution to this version